Friday, November 19, 2010

We Need a Building!

It's Friday and I just received an e-mail with the mock ups of our website! I can't wait until it's finished and up. We will at that point move our blog over to our web page, but until it's finished we needed a forum to let all of you know about what we are up to and our progress. Out of the blue this week we had an investor approach us (that's right approach us!) and tell us that he has money for us in January. It's the last bit we need, as long as the stars align for him, they have aligned for us as well. Though this person is supreme about follow through, I'll be excited when all the paperwork is signed. I know better than to count the roasters before they are in the oven. We have been doing shameless self promotion on Facebook and will be tweeting away soon with all of our updates as well. Part of these last couple weeks have been creating databases; businesses, clients, and recipes. The more we aren't trying to wing at the last minute the smoother this opening is going to be. Teaching? Cake! We have that down. It's logistics and business behind the scenes that needs to be mise en placed to the T (mise en place means, everything in it's place, in cooking we use it to refer to having the recipe read, twice, ingredients out, measured, chopped, oven on, step list, and mentally thinking about what you are going to do and how you are going to do it. That's just one little nugget you would get out of taking a class from us). Business plan is done, finally, website is being worked on, logo stuff has been tasked out and we have contacted a realtor to help us find a building! We need a kitchen! It's too expensive to put in a hood system and plumbing for gas so the more we have already available in the building the better off we are going to be to open as soon as possible. So keep an eye out for us! Ideally we'd like to be in center SE Portland, but we are happy to take your findings wherever they may be. We can't wait to have our own space and to start teaching!